Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazete, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1879
    One of the best stories we have seen is contained in London Nature. A brave, active, intelligent terrier, belonging to a lady, one day discovered a monkey belonging to an itinerant organ-grinder, seated upon a bank within the grounds, and at once made a dash for him. The monkey, who was attired in jacket […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 8, 1879
    It seems that the Belgians have formed a society for the mental and moral improvement of cats. Their first efforts has been to train the cat to do the work of the carrier pigeons. The most astute and decomplished scientific person would have the ideas of locality totally confused by being tied up in […]
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
This afternoon, [Jan. 24th,] Mr. Andrew Wallace rode his horse across the ice bridge-a difficult feat in itself-but not satisfied with this, ascended to the summit of the ice mountain at the base of the American Fall. The sight from the cliffs on the Canada side, which were covered with a large crowd of visitors, […]
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
Lieut. Lyle, of the United States Army, has made some interesting observations on the food of the robin. He details in the American Naturalist his experience in feeding young birds and testing their decided preference for beetles and other insects, showing that they ate seeds only when there was a lack of insects and that […]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, February 15, 1879
For some years the Russian army has been experimenting with passenger pigeons, and has met with much success. Something like 2,500 trained birds are now at the disposal of the military staff. The principal depot is at Warsaw, and there are stations at all the fortresses. Each station consists of several dovecots fitted up separately, […]
Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1879
Out at the Lafayette Park Police station in St. Louis, they have a weather prophet which eclipses Tice and all the barometers in the neighborhood. It is a frog of the genus Hyla, more familiar to the general reader as the tree toad. The Superintendent of the Park, was mildly abusing his barometer one day […]
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 15, 1879
One of the singular proofs of the foreign importation and perhaps of the late arrival in Europe of the cat, is found in its various names, says the London Daily News. It is said that none of them came from the old Aryan source, from which most of our language is derived. Most of them, […]
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 23, 1878
    The veritable “Mary [who] had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow,” visited the Old South spinning bee at Boston Wednesday afternoon and told the ladies present the story of the lamb. When she was 9 years old and living on a farm, one morning she went out into the barn, where […]
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 16, 1878
    In the New Jersey calender Tuesday was “sheep day,” so called because upon one day in each year the township committees are in session to receive complaints from farmers and sheep-owners. These complaints state the number and value of the sheep which have been killed by dogs during the year. These losses are paid […]
Friday, December 16, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, March 9, 1878
    The Canadaigna Journal of last week tells the following: “Along the sidewalk leading from the Globe Hotel to the hotel stable is a board fence. North of this fence is a yard where Mr. Decker frequently turns his horse loose for exercise. The ground in the yard next to the fence is a foot […]
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